Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Also. Not only art thou polluted with idolatry, but also with the guilt of shedding innocent blood (Maurer). Rosenmuller; not so well, translates, 'even in thy skirts,' etc.; i:e., there is no part of thee (not even thy skirts) that is not stained with innocent blood (2 Kings 21:16; Psalms 106:38). See as to innocent blood shed, not as here in honour of idols, but of prophets for having reproved them, Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 26:20-23, King Jehoiakim slew the prophet Urijah by the hand of Elnathan and others.
Souls - i:e., persons.
Search. I did not need to 'search deep' to find proofs of thy guilt; for it was 'upon all these' thy skirts. Not in deep caverns didst thou perpetrate these atrocities, but openly in the vale of Hinnom and within the precincts of the temple.